New Zealand's needle exchanges helped reduced HIV transmissions
New Zealand has avoided the high HIV rates seen among high-risk groups in other countries, a new study shows.
Feb 27, 2020
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New Zealand has avoided the high HIV rates seen among high-risk groups in other countries, a new study shows.
Feb 27, 2020
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The financial effects of alcoholism on the family members of addicts can be massive, but little is known about whether treatment for alcoholism reduces that financial burden. A study of 48 German families published online ...
Sep 24, 2012
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For nearly three decades, daily antiretroviral pills have offered patients living with HIV a highly effective way to keep their infection under control.
Jul 5, 2023
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Researchers at Queen Mary University of London have shown that zebrafish can provide genetic clues to smoking, a complex human behaviour.
Mar 30, 2020
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New research suggests that cannabis use by people in care for opioid addiction might improve their treatment outcomes and reduce their risk of being exposed to fentanyl in the contaminated unregulated drug supply.
Dec 21, 2020
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(Medical Xpress)—What is the best intervention window for someone struggling with cocaine addiction? When he or she is in the middle of a drug binge, or after a period of abstinence when there is temptation to fall back ...
Jan 15, 2013
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(HealthDay)—A U.S. government study using monkeys to investigate nicotine addiction has been halted and an investigation launched after four monkeys died.
Jan 26, 2018
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Once heavy drinking impairs function, a variety of punishment-related threats may motivate people to stop drinking: spouses may threaten divorce, employers may threaten job loss, and courts threaten drunk drivers with losing ...
Jan 30, 2013
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Neuroscientists at Western University (London, Canada) have made a remarkable new discovery revealing the underlying molecular process by which opiate addiction develops in the brain. Opiate addiction is largely controlled ...
Sep 10, 2013
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A protein known as FosB in the reward centre of the brain alters in chronically ill people suffering from an addictive disorder (e.g. heroin addiction). It is genetically modified, split off and shortened. This modification ...
Dec 21, 2016
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